The Great White Shark is, to the minds of many, the ultimate predator. It eats beachgoers, flies through the air in sharknadoes, and is generally seen as the perfect eating machine. But for something else in the ocean, it’s just a snack.

Here’s what we know. “Shark Alpha”, a nine-foot-long female Great White, was tagged as part of a project to track shark migrations around the coast of Australia. All well and good, right? Well, four months later, her tag washes up on the beach.

Essentially, the tag (and the shark attached to it, presumably) rocketed down the side of the continental shelf. It swam, or was dragged, 1900 feet and the temperature went up thirty degrees around it. The ocean doesn’t usually have “warm pockets” at that depth, so about the only way to suddenly get that warm is to be jammed into something. Like, say, you get stuffed down its gullet and into its stomach.

The tag stayed in the digestive tract for eight days before being expelled to the surface. Which raises two questions: Just what the hell is capable of doing this, and why do things like this always happen in Australia?

We have no answer to the latter question, but the theory is that it’s the recently discovered giant squid, which turns out to be an aggressive feeder and is known to take on whales when it gets big enough. However, this is the first confirmation that they eat freaking Great White sharks, and happily linger 300 feet or so from the surface instead of staying in the crushing black depths where they damn well belong.

Basically, the moral of the story is that Australia is the source of all frightening monsters and you should never go there. Also, we need more movies about killer squid, because clearly sharks have been oversold as the sea’s worst menace. Maybe a Squidnado?

Also, the giant squid is not “recently discovered.” Jesus, fucking Pliny the Elder described a squid with 30 foot arms in, like, year 45. The first video of one in its natural habitat was recently recorded, but they’ve been on record for literally millenia.

@No Damn Sense Yeah, because Pliny never made shit up. We’ve had circumstantial evidence, but we had no idea whether they were real in the first place, still around, or what they were until very recently.

Dude, seriously? Have you done the remotest of evidence? Tentacles from a colossal were discovered inside a whale in 1925. That’s a COLOSSAL.

Do the minimum of research: For the “giant” species: Aristotle, Pliny, eyewitness accounts throughout the Middle ages, pieces recovered throughout the 1800s, including whole specimens washing up on Newfoundland and New Zealand shores, strandings occurring again in the 1960s…and on and on and on…

Come on, man, I literally just said giant and colossal squid are my favorite things, I happen to know WAY THE FUCK more than you about them.

Seriously, the absolute minimum of research would have told you all of this.

Yeah, I knew some juveniles had been found, but as far as I know, nothing approaching what they expect a full-grown colossal to be like.

There was even an attempt several years ago to “raise” one in captivity, after it was discovered that they spawn in relatively shallow waters, I believe, somewhere off the coast of Japan, but that failed.

A Giant Squid would definatly be the culprit. If a Giant Squid is hungry, it really wouldn’t care what it was grabbing. In other words, I really don’t think they would discriminate food wise.
As far as it being recently discovered, I think it was more recently filmed in it’s environment because they have been washing up on the shores of Japan for a long time.
I remember seeing footage of them when I was a kid and it freaking me out, and I am 40 years old now. Even then they knew what they were capable of eating because Japanese whalers were catching whales with circular bite barks on their skin and scientists came to the conclusion that it was from the Giant Squid’s tentacles.
I mean if a Giant Squid can kill a 40 foot whale, a 20 foot shark is not going to be a hindrance.

Megalodon. Scientists have only assumed it was extinct. But we only explored less than 5% of our oceans and have discovered species that were only thought to have been myths. I say it is Megalodon. There have been in the recent past sightings of a shark the size of Megalodon seen in shallow waters and disappearing back into the deep.

CNN isn’t quite known for being in the know or even spot on..they did run a stupid story about a meteor that scared a load of people..so yeah..I am thinking CNN is an off shoot of the national enquirer at this point.

Cephelopods like giant squid have serious problems with making sudden pressure changes. I doubt one could surface from ~2000 feet, attack a great white and drag the whole thing down 2000 feet without suffering serious distress.

Megalodon. Scientists have only assumed it was extinct. But we only explored less than 5% of our oceans and have discovered species that were only thought to have been myths. I say it is Megalodon. There have been in the recent past sightings of a shark the size of Megalodon seen in shallow waters and disappearing back into the deep.

Megalodon. Scientists have only assumed it was extinct. But we only explored less than 5% of our oceans and have discovered species that were only thought to have been myths. I say it is Megalodon. There have been in the recent past sightings of a shark the size of Megalodon seen in shallow waters and disappearing back into the deep.

You go in the cage? The cage goes in the water? The whatever-the-fuck-it-is-that-ate-this-Great-White-shark is in the water? Our whatever-the-fuck-it-is-that-ate-this-Great-White-shark?! Hehehe. Oh, farewell, and adieu, to you fair Spanish ladies. Farewell, and adieu, to you ladies of Spain. For we’ve received orders to sale back to Boston, and never shall we see ye fair ladies again.

The logic answer here is iver the wolf of the sea orca killer whale but orcas cant go that deep, so that that rules that out, the only logical answer would be the infamous giant squid that eats sperm whales or its a totally new specie we have never see before, because there are parts of the oceans we have never gone to because its to far to go that deep, A specie could live in that environment could swallow a shark whole.

There is more to this video, the documentary goes on to determine what ate Aplha the guy spent 10 years searching for answers and a giant squid was ruled out, along with Orca. He came to the conclusion after cage diving in Adelaide that in fact an even bigger male Great White Shark had eaten it.[sploid.gizmodo.com]

determination requires evidence, not supposition. he couldn’t rule anything out. without empirical evidence it’s simply a bunch of fucking bullshit, that people like you keep repeating, and which serves to make the entire universe stupider.

Let’s put this into perspective – the tag was eaten and taken deep, not necessarily the whole shark. Therefore it doesn’t mean a gigantic creature must be responsible, just one nimble and powerful enough to take the tag

It’s Megalodon, Yes I am saying a long extinct shark didn’t go extinct and its making its appearance again, If you don’t know what Megalodon is, its a shark the size of a 747 Jumbo Jet, complete with the world’s heaviest biting force at 40,000 pounds per square inch = to 20 tons, the attack on the Great White is too similar to ignore that it is Megalodon….